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Cassini Completes Titan FlybyPasadena CA (JPL) Dec 14, 2004 
The Cassini spacecraft completed a successful rendezvous with Saturn's moon Titan Monday. This was the last pass before the European Space Agency's Huygens probe is sprung loose from Cassini on Christmas Eve. |
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First Flyby Of Dione
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 14, 2004This map of Saturn's moon Dione, generated from Cassini images taken during the spacecraft's first two orbits of Saturn, illustrates the imaging coverage planned during Cassini's first Dione flyby on Dec. 14, 2004. Decoding Dusty Disks 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 14, 2004The Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes each have found dusty disks around sun-like stars. Finding such rings of dusty debris around stars the size of the sun is difficult, because they are fainter and harder to detect than disks around more massive stars. |
NASA Set To Launch First Comet Impact Probe
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Dec 15, 2004Launch and flight teams are in final preparations for the planned Jan. 12, 2005, liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., of NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft. The mission is designed for a six-month, one-way, 431 million kilometer (268 million mile) voyage. Space Scientist Proposes New Model For Jupiter's Core 
St Louis MO (SPX) Dec 14, 2004After eleven months of politics, now it's time for some real "core values" - not those of the candidates but those of the great gas giant planet, Jupiter. |
NASA's Aura: New Eye For Clean Air
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 15, 2004Take a deep breath. On Earth the air is easy to take for granted. It's everywhere. But if you take a rocket into space the Earth's atmosphere falls away. Astronauts understand this at an instinctive level. NASA's ICESat Satellite Sees Changing World Affecting Many 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 15, 2004The Earth is a dynamic entity, and scientists are trying to understand it. Various things in nature grow and shrink, such as ice sheets, glaciers, forests, rivers, clouds and atmospheric pollutants, serving as the pulse of the planet and affecting many people in many walks of life. |
Roberto Vittori To Fly To ISS On Italian Soyuz Mission Eneide
Paris, France (ESA) Dec 13, 2004Roberto Vittori will be the next ESA astronaut to fly to the International Space Station, on the 10-day Italian Soyuz mission, scheduled to be launched on 15 April next year from Baikonur Cosmodrome. A Chance To Imagine The Future 
Yverdon, Switzerland (ESA) Dec 14, 2004Budding writers and artists have opportunity to describe their vision of the future in the 2005 Clarke-Bradbury International Science Fiction competition. In 2003 the competition received 104 entries. |
Improved Predictions Of Cloud Formation For Better Climate Modeling
Atlanta GA (SPX) Dec 13, 2004Atmospheric scientists have developed simple, physics-based equations that address some of the limitations of current methods for representing cloud formation in global climate models � important because of increased aerosol pollution that gives clouds more cooling power and affects precipitation. Historic Himalayan Ice Dams Created Huge Lakes, Mammoth Floods 
Seattle WA (SPX) Dec 14, 2004New research shows that a major Ice Dam broke through its ice barrier somewhere between 600 and 900 AD, causing massive torrents of water to pour through the Himalayas into India. |
UA Mirror Lab To Cast First Mirror For Giant Magellan Telescope
Tucson AZ (SPX) Dec 15, 2004The University of Arizona Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory and the Carnegie Observatories of the Carnegie Institution have signed an agreement to produce the first mirror segment for the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), a project of the multi-institutional GMT consortium. X-Ray Line-emitting Objects In XMM-Newton Observations: Tip Of Iceberg 
Paris, France (ESA) Dec 13, 2004Every time a new window on the cosmos, or more simply a new region of the parameter space has been explored, new and often unexpected results have been obtained. |
Permafrost Warming A Challenge To Tibetian Train Route
Boulder CO (SPX) Dec 14, 2004Engineers constructing a new railroad across the vast, high-altitude Tibetan Plateau are using a surprisingly simple idea to fortify shifting frozen soils affected by climate warming, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder permafrost expert. La Silla Images Large Magellanic Cloud 
La Silla, Chile (SPX) Dec 13, 2004The Tarantula Nebula is one of the most impressive views in the Southern sky. Visible to the unaided eye in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, this huge nebula is the prototype to the "Giant HII region". |
Atmel And Thales Partner To Build Advanced, Affordable, GPS Chipsets
San Jose CA (SPX) Dec 14, 2004Atmel and Thales navigation business have signed a technology agreement, under which the two companies will partner in the development and marketing of state-of-the-art global positioning system (GPS) chipsets, sub-systems and associated software. Thales Announces Magellan MapSend Topo 3D USA 
Santa Clara CA (SPX) Dec 14, 2004Thales announced Monday the introduction of Magellan MapSend Topo 3D USA software; a powerful, seamless map database with topography, street detail and thousands of searchable points of interest (POIs) for the 48 contiguous United States and Hawaii. |
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